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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

QUOTABLE

"Sometime the monkey's got to get off my back. I don't know when, but damn, sometime soon. . . . It can't be like this. This is not me. I'm letting my team down.

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Mets RHP Duaner Sanchez, after allowing

three hits and three decisive runs in the

eighth inning of a 5-2 loss to the Pirates

PERSONNEL DEPT.

Braves: Manager Bobby Cox said LHP Jo-Jo Reyes will be brought up from Class AAA Richmond to take Tom Glavine's turn in the rotation against the Mets.

Pirates: Placed 1B Doug Mientkiewicz on bereavement leave after the game and recalled OF Nyjer Morgan from Class AAA Indianapolis.

BY THE NUMBERS

12-1

Barry Zito's record with the Giants when he gets four or more runs of support. Zito has won just 18 of 59 starts since signing a $126 million deal before last season, and San Francisco has scored one or zero runs in 24 of them.



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